The Guardian reports on the latest study of labor conditions at Foxconn factories. Hong Kong workers’ rights group Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (Sacom) found that: Grueling workloads, humiliating punishments and battery-farm living conditions remain routine for workers assembling Apple’s luxury electronics, according to one of the most detailed reports yet on life inside China’s Foxconn factories. The researchers…

Since I’ve been incessantly beating the neo-classical free trade drum on this blog for the past week, I thought I’d return to my Lefty roots with a good old fashioned post on disappearing employment benefits.

Enjoying the Beijing heatwave? Whether your office is either too hot or too cold, you may be looking at a little extra cash in your pocket at the end of the month. Just check with the Labor Bureau first.

Why do U.S. companies invest in China? Contrary to everyone else on the planet, some wizards of Wall Street think that companies are leaving the U.S. in droves because neo-Marxists are running amok in Washington. Idiots.

Why do U.S. companies invest in China? Three seconds with the Google machine will tell you. But some wizards of Wall Street, who don’t have three seconds to spare, think that companies are leaving the U.S. in droves because neo-Marxists are running amok in Washington. Idiots.

Yes, the most recent bad guys in the China labor wars are the folks from Microsoft. The details are still a bit fuzzy, but here are some of the basics: Two Chinese factories that supply goods to Microsoft and other global companies have been cited by government officials for violating local labor laws, including failing…